Policy Implications for Social Impact of Emerging Technologies: Next Generation Internet Application Services in South Korea

What this study raise the most important question for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) is not how the technology for NGI application service will be changed, but how the impact of NGI application service will change our life and implicate key policy makers. To reach this research goal, this research was conducted primarily to understand and analyze the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) use in education and health care in Korea and further to suggest policy implications for the Next Generation Internet. The research methods were related literature reviews such as Social Informatics, and Internet application services as to Education and Health Care. From the analysis of Education and Health Care application service based on the social impact perspectives, this research found that Education and Health Care application services in Korea had considered ICTs as a simple context so that some policy gaps were founded between human and ICTs. To fill it up, this research suggested critical further researches.